KaKa

3 minutes ago, Zero said:

What the hell are you drunk Kaka?

Nope. You lot are just talking rubbish.

1 minute ago, christ said:

He’s in a huff because he can barely get a kick in a farmer’s league, but if he joins us now he’s a fringe player. We’ve moved beyond him.

 

He needs to go somewhere and get his career back on track. Might turn into the player he threatened to be if he screws his head on.

He was the top scorer at Reims at 19 years old and helped keep them up in the 'farmers league' he apparently can't get a kick in. You sound dumb

5 minutes ago, Zero said:

He is a gamble. Every high profile transfer is a gamble. Look at Mudryk.

 

 

 

Yeah, I'm sure they just woke up one morning and decided to randomly spend £60 million on Isak after pulling his name out of a hat. 

3 hours ago, Superior Acuña said:

Im not very optimistic for this - they’re just doing so well and I’m waiting for our bubble to burst (not used to being so good). Will def be happy with a draw 

You may have failed to notice we've been doing quite well ourselves, sir.

1 hour ago, Zero said:

It means “I have zero interest in joining Newcastle since day one. I didn’t put it aside, it’s simply a waste of time right from the beginning”

 

 

however, nowadays, I don’t believe any club would make an offer if they know (mostly from the agent) that the player has absolutely no interest in joining them. You might argue for this but my take is the club was informed that the player MIGHT agree the move to here, hence we spent nearly TWO windows and making several rounds of negotiations with Reims and the players agent, UNTIL PSG finally submit a bid.

 

The player himself and the agent are cunts in the highest order. Fuck them all. We are lucky that the gamble on Isak is a win, or else we are in deep trouble.

 

 

 

 

Isak was not a 'gamble', neither was he an alternative to Ekitike. 

You barely even know what's been going on at the club.

As we have just seen with the Anthony Gordon fuss, we thankfully have a manager with a very cool calm head that does not over react and get overly emotional about things, but is instead a very fair and reasonable human being. He will not have taken things personally and as some sort of slight like so many on here do. If a deal is there to be done and the player has since recognised that moving to Newcastle is in fact a good move, I'm sure it will be considered.

And it's interesting to note that this is what Ekitike himself actually said about Newcastle shortly after joining PSG last summer.

Hugo Ekitike interviewed by Le Parisien and reported by Le10Sport, why he ended up signings for PSG and not Newcastle United, what actually happened:

‘Did you put Newcastle on hold last winter and then this summer, despite the agreement with Reims, because you were waiting for PSG?’

“I had an appointment with Luis (Campos) which meant a lot for me.

“It was not so long ago.

“We talked a lot, he is someone I consider enormously.

“I wanted to come to PSG before this exchange but it convinced me even more.

“I don’t put aside everything Newcastle did to get me to come.

“If I had to go abroad, I would have gone there.

“But when PSG wants you and you’re French, you can’t refuse.”

I get not really liking a player's game, but don't understand why some folks don't rate someone, when they clearly haven't really seen them play!

For anyone interested in making some money this weekend, we'll be winning this one by 3 goals to us and 1 goal to them. You're welcome.

2 minutes ago, andycap said:

I have we ran him ragged the few times he's come up against us. For Palace and chelsea he was chasing shadows, you cheeky bugger you ? 

He is by no means slow though, and the hallmark of his game is his engine and work rate! 

1 minute ago, andycap said:

I wouldn't go near Gallagher like. He's a London lad plus I've never been impressed with him at all. Doesn't look very quick or have a good engine on him. I'd rather hoy an extra 20 million on the price for rice atleast you can see he's a good player. 

Basically just confirmed you've never seen him play 

7 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

 

Best manager in the league.

BT Sports coverage of Ligue 1 is really really good.

Have caught a number of Nice games recently since my boy Terem Moffi moved there in January.

Kephren Thuram is really fantastic. 6 ft 4 fluid athlete with pace and great ball carrying ability that can thread a delicious pass.

Terem scored a stunner just yesterday in the Conference League against Basel. The ball that opened things up was the pass from Thuram, that then allowed for the ball across the box for Moffi to finish superbly.

Would absolutely love to batter these lot tomorrow. 

Brummie is cool, but the way some of their fans carry on about Newcastle is pretty annoying.

Also, Emery was pretty irritating too with the way he handled our approach after the takeover.

Really want this one.

52 minutes ago, Milanista said:

I don't think you can get a more attacking-style LB, Botman will get exposed. At Lille he had Djalo as his LB, who is naturally a CB, and played LB next to him, and this year is playing as a CB.

 

If you want to upgrade Dan Burn, more power to you, I haven't watched enough to determine how big a priority that is.

 

But I don't think you can have a real attacking LB with Botman. You'd need a left-sided Ben White-style player, or you'd need to be far more dominant in your possession and play style to limit his exposure.

Howe has always really favoured full backs that get forward and provide width, with his wingers typically inverted and slightly narrower.

I think a big part of the reason we appear to be targeting a more dynamic and defensively minded DM to play in the number 6 position, is to better protect our centre backs when teams counter attack, and seek to exploit gaps left by our full backs getting forward. This will be even more important with a more attacking left back coming in.

3 hours ago, SUPERTOON said:

Kompany supposedly Spurs number one target.

God forbid. Hope he steers well clear of that stupid club.

Just now, LionOfGosforth said:

So much for winning 3-0 Todd ya daft cunt

Just now, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Best thing Liverpool could do is spend £150m on Bellingham TBH. And another £75 on Rice if possible

Apparently they've been so taken aback by how badly their midfield fell off this season that they are aiming to go for three players instead with that money to fully rebuild that area.

1 minute ago, Dokko said:

 

A loan to see what he's about isn't such a bad place to be. Would he want to come? Would he see it as a step down and need to swallow some pride? Would we deal with his agent again? Lots of questions on this lad and his situation, then he has to settle in a new Country, a cold region, away from the dazzle of Paris. JP on the other hand, already settled in the Country, is ready to step up, hasn't spat his dummy with Watford keeping him in the Championship and if Watford miss out on promotion, then its 100% certain he'll leave and on his terms after staying this season.

 

 

Guess we'll find out! Two real talents though, so would be happy either way.

2 minutes ago, timeEd32 said:

If we make the CL and we're even sniffing around the Rice level of fee/wages I'd prefer us to offer the moon to Bellingham. Send in Shearer, send in Keegan, send in a blank check.

Liverpool pulled out because the fee is apparently going to  be around the £150 million mark. This would be a really bad idea for us.

5 minutes ago, Thumbheed said:

I'd still take him - just has the feel of every other players who's left PSG only to turn out class elsewhere. 

 

Furthermore, anyone Luis Campos has cast his eye on deserves a second look

 

 

 

Yeah, think I agree really. I'd be happy with either him or Pedro.

Watford might be a pain in the backside again over Pedro's fee and so it will be good to have another option, especially as it seems he'll be available on loan initially.

15 minutes ago, Dokko said:

 

Well it is true. He'd be 3rd choice in any position here, which is where he's at now. Unless he's had a rude awakening or a complete personality transplant, then this one isn't worth the trouble. Much rather have JP here, better all round player, and much better attitude.

Yeah, I guess the club will be making the final call on it. Howe really liked him though and a lot of leg work went into trying to do a deal. The rumour is PSG are looking to loan him out initially too with an option then to purchase as it works out better for them FFP wise that way. That would also suit us massively form an FFP point of view too.

I don't think he handled things that well last season, but he certainly had some reason to be dissatisfied with his opportunities, especially when PSG are so dominant in that league and could have easily put him on more regularly when they were easily winning games, but it didn't really happen.

2 hours ago, Dokko said:

 

He'll not get much time here as Howe rarely rotates. He'll be for the bench, which is where he's at already. I doubt he'd have the patience to try and break in. It's a huge no for me.

This is not true. He'll get plenty more game time both coming off the bench and occasionally starting as Wilson always gets injured and with the amount of games we'll be playing Isak will need to be rotated. Ekitike can also play out wide too and so can cover there as well at times.

I don't think people realise how badly PSG managed him this past season. A good amount of times I watched them in games they were winning comfortably in Ligue 1 and he never came on. This is what caused him to get frustrated in the first place. PSG were not innocent in the whole mess of a situation at all. 

3 hours ago, The Prophet said:

It'll be interesting if we go back for sure. I could see his alleged attitude problems and the fact we now have Isak making it unlikely though. 

Originally the idea was to find a young back up to Wilson that could grow into a first team role i.e. Ekitike or Pedro.

Isak was brought in as a ready to go striker because Wilson got injured early on and we realised we couldn't rely on him.

This summer we will go again for that younger striker rotational player option that can also get games in other positions, because Wilson continues to be unreliable fitness wise and we are going to have even more games to play next season.

Yeah, I just meant in the the way they line up i.e. in a 4-3-3, as Arsenal still keep that shape defensively too.

Aside from that though, I would say Mount is more adept defensively than Odegaard as far as dropping back goes.

He's played a lot in central midfield over his career - https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/mason-mount/leistungsdaten/spieler/346483/plus/0?saison=ges